# Pickpocketed

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 12, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980 "2003-07-12T16:03:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![glass\_onion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@glass\_onion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glass_onion)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980/1 "2003-07-12T16:03:38Z")

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My Mam, Dad and Sis are currrently in Paris on a short break.

They were pickpocketed on a bus, my father had €600 in his wallet, and his credit and debit crads were taken too.

I dunno why he carried so much cash around a city where he is so obviously a tourist…serves him right I suppose?

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**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980/2 "2003-07-12T16:22:58Z")

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Murphy’s law, I guess. I was mugged in Spain once, shortly after changing money (this was back in the old days when people actually used traveler’s checks). I had the equivalent of US $350 in my purse – the most cash I have _ever_ carried, or expect to carry, in my life.

Damned if I know why it always happens that way, but it does.

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**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980/3 "2003-07-12T18:11:40Z")

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It hardly serves him right. That really sucks. I carry my wallet in my front pocket which makes it difficult to pickpocket me. Also, I am keenly aware of my sorroundings in any crowded area.

Haj

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**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980/4 "2003-07-12T22:04:00Z")

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I was pickpocketed in Times Square once when I first moved here - back before Times Square became Disneyland.

It happened while I was watching the guys play 3-card monte.

Damn! I knew where the red card was, too!

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**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980/5 "2003-07-13T02:34:54Z")

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Someone stole my purse at a “religious place” – in the U. S. :mad:

Too bad about the Paris & Spain incidents.

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**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pickpocketed/187980/6 "2003-07-13T03:03:28Z")

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On the train from Schipol to Centraal Station, Amsterdam…a couple were traveling with IMO too much luggage, when a man asked if he could help them, he helped himself to the woman’s wallet.

Again in Amsterdam, Mr. eenerms had a travel vest with the zippers and velcro, a swarming band of non-Dutch, tried to pickpocket him, didn’t happen! Too many zippers. (This was years ago before these travel vests were rarely seen on travelers.)